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Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Cyril Clinton Merriman
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Cyril Clinton Merriman
Crew of Lancaster LL959
Photo courtesy of Wickenby Register, England.
The crew were on a mission to Merseburg, Germany, when they were shot down by flak at Breda 10 miles south of the target
Only the Pilot survived and was taken PoW.
Back Row Left to Right:
F/L (P) Don Nelson; F/O (N) Thomas R. Murray; F/O (BA) Vernon H. Halstead; F/Sgt (AG) Cyril C. Merriman;
Bottom Row Left to Right:
RAF (Flt Eng). O. Old; RAF (W/T) R. Lacey; P/O (AG) Andrew M. O. Walker
[Crew information from They Shall Grow Not Old, published by Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, MB]
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Cyril Clinton Merriman
Courtesy of Keith Perry, Seeley's Bay.
Kingston Whig Standard photo of local men who graduated from No. 9 Bombing and Gunnery School. The names were reversed and correctly are:
Left to Right:
Sgt. Glen T. McMaster; Sgt. Nelson Perry KIA; Sgt. Cyril C. Merriman KIA; Sgt. M. Blad; Sgt. John J. Scott PoW.
Sgt. Merriman was air gunner on Lancaster LL959, 626 (RAF) Sqdn.
He was the son of Harold C. Merriman and his wife Pearl Ann Hartman.
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Cyril Clinton Merriman
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Cyril Clinton Merriman
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Cyril Clinton Merriman
Flight Sergeant Cyril Clinton Merriman is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Cyril Clinton Merriman
Flight Sergeant Cyril Clinton Merriman is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Image gallery
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Crew of Lancaster LL959 Photo courtesy of Wickenby Register, England. The crew were on a mission to Merseburg, Germany, when they were shot down by flak at Breda 10 miles south of the target Only the Pilot survived and was taken PoW. Back Row Left to Right: F/L (P) Don Nelson; F/O (N) Thomas R. Murray; F/O (BA) Vernon H. Halstead; F/Sgt (AG) Cyril C. Merriman; Bottom Row Left to Right: RAF (Flt Eng). O. Old; RAF (W/T) R. Lacey; P/O (AG) Andrew M. O. Walker [Crew information from They Shall Grow Not Old, published by Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, MB]
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Courtesy of Keith Perry, Seeley's Bay. Kingston Whig Standard photo of local men who graduated from No. 9 Bombing and Gunnery School. The names were reversed and correctly are: Left to Right: Sgt. Glen T. McMaster; Sgt. Nelson Perry KIA; Sgt. Cyril C. Merriman KIA; Sgt. M. Blad; Sgt. John J. Scott PoW. Sgt. Merriman was air gunner on Lancaster LL959, 626 (RAF) Sqdn. He was the son of Harold C. Merriman and his wife Pearl Ann Hartman.
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Cyril Clinton Merriman is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Flight Sergeant Cyril Clinton Merriman is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 545 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom
During the Second World War more than 116,000 men and women of the Air Forces of the British Commonwealth gave their lives in service. More than 17,000 of these were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave. Of these, 20,450 are commemorated by name on the Runnymede Memorial, which is situated at Englefield Green, near Egham, 32 kilometers by road west of London.
The design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance. The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow. The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone reveals of the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen. Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, Per Ardua ad Astra". On each side is the inscription:
IN THIS CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF TWENTY THOUSAND AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE
In the tower a vaulted shrine, which provides a quiet place for contemplation, contains illuminated verses by Paul H. Scott."
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